Musical Quotes

Take a play that you like but you think is flawed, and see if you can improve it and turn it into a musical. [...] Then make up your own story.

I was struck by the effortless way they moved between musical styles, all the while managing to make each their own. It was instantaneous that I knew I wanted to work with them.

My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.

And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

With a voice like Ella ringing out there's no way a band can lose.

In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.

It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Commentating, illustrating, description giving, adjective expert, analyzing, surmising musical myth seeking people of the universe, this is yours.

I'm doing a play, a musical. The musical follows the Mamma Mia concept. It's my first LA theater project.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Musical integrity means a lot to me, personally for myself, I don't really care if other people can't even sing or whatever. For myself I have high standards.

I have many musical inspirations, but I would really love to just be me. My very own artist.

Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

Well, I love Bob Dylan, let's make that clear. He's one of my musical heroes.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.

My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.

Frank Martin is a rarity. Dexterous as a player, writer and singer, he is thoughtful and skilled in his approach and passionate in his delivery. He is a unique, first-class musical personality.

I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

The record is definitely a musical journey. It's kind of all over the place, which I like.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Since the inception of Gym Class in 1997, every member has had another musical outlet, if not three or four.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.

Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

When I was writing, I wanted every word to be not only deliberate, but musical. Precious.

I was lucky to get one good adaptation. Field of Dreams the Musical is lurking in the wings. Hope it will provide my daughters with a ton of money someday.

And my singing, I don't think I could sing Wagner or opera, but I could probably carry a tune. I was in a musical once, but it was never performed.

I've always loved that film ['The Three Caballeros'], and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .

I have been exposed to most musical genres and have learned how to tackle them effectively.

If I am feeling musical and I pick up the guitar, usually something will eventually come out and I'll see where it goes.

My father was very musical, and music plays quite a large part in my life.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts. Like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

I have a dream my life would be. So different from this hell I'm living. So different now from what it seem. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."*Fantine

My body, my soul and my mind, simultaneously response to good music.

Why do you write like you're running out of time?

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.